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"Let my style capture all the sounds of my time. This should make it an annoyance to my contemporaries. But later generations should hold it to their ears like a seashell in which there is the music of an ocean of mud."
"In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential."
"People care more about trends now than they do about style. They get so wrapped up in what's happening that they forget how to dress, and they never learn who they are because they never learn how to take care of anything."
"Boots in January are always a good look, and some of the cutest ones I've seen lately were designed by Ivanka Trump, who knows a thing or two about style."
"Whether in music or in fiction, the most basic thing is rhythm. Your style needs to have good, natural, steady rhythm, or people won't keep reading your work."
"One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness."
"Carlyle must undoubtedly plead guilty to the charge of mannerism. He not only has his vein, but his peculiar manner of working it.He has a style which can be imitated, and sometimes is an imitator of himself."
"The most attractive sentences are, perhaps, not the wisest, but the surest and roundest. They are spoken firmly and conclusively,as if the speaker had a right to know what he says, and if not wise, they have at least been well learned."
"The grand style arises when beauty wins a victory over the monstrous."
"Epicurus had rage and envy of Plato's superior style."
"My style has evolved because I was one of the guys that would "geek chic" it every now and then. Now I'm just more into whatever works for me. I think that's just age."
"It is this delightful habit of journalizing which largely contributes to form the easy style of writing for which ladies are so generally celebrated. Every body allows that the talent of writing is particularly female. Nature might have done something, but I am sure it must be essentially assisted by the practice of keeping a journal."
"I developed a pretty unusual style, I think."
"We have two kinds of air: regular and chunky style."
"You develop a style from writing a lot."
"Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes."
"To fight in another man's armour is something more than to be influenced by his style of fighting."
"I use a different style if I'm speaking to a big crowd; I can gin up folks pretty well. But when I'm in these town hall settings, my job is not to throw them a lot of red meat. I want to give them a sense of my thought process."
"We have come from a time of the large-scale, planned, Al Qaeda-style attacks, to the encouragement of lone wolves: Fort Hood, Chattanooga. To the encouragement of people to act on their own."
"My style of performance poetry came from the beatniks, Allen Ginsberg."
